Being Different

A Winter Tale

A/N: We get to the bottom of Bryant's dilemma with Rhet...and Darius' love for his buddy prompts him to take action. If you're not up to detailed male on male love, skip it...sorry!

Dedicated to: ambermoon3105 KaySetonks Annteee 

Darius POV

I pulled Bry back into the room and closed those balcony doors but not before noticing Rhet glance up at me in a knowing smirk. I somehow didn't like that guy much. There was something fishy about him and I made it my prerogative to initiate a little investigation of my own into his background later.

"Tell me...Tell me so that I can help you..." I settled him down on the edge of the bed beside me and cuddled him close to me, but he shifted to his left, leaving me hanging. "Bry, if you don't tell me what do you expect me to do?" I nudged him.

"Alright...alright...but you won't like this...You might even hate me afterwards..." Bry steered away from my touch.

"Try me..." I said, motioning for him to go on.

"We were both stationed in Gdansk, the night you left with Katrina on that wild goose chase across town and got stranded, remember?" He jogged my memory.

It was the night Damien was conceived.

"Yes, go on...I was with her the whole night..." I added.

"Yeah, you sure were" He smirked, knowing full well what had happened between us. Bry was the only one I had told of our little triste, because I trusted the guy with my life. "Well, Rhet and I went to a bar that night and I didn't expect some of Minsky's boys to show up. Well, we got into a game of cards with them. It was supposed to have been a nice, friendly game. But then, things got ugly when I was accused of cheating and we went to blows with them before running out of there..." He shook his head.

Ah yes, the infamous general Bratislav Minsky, whom we had no choice but to ask assistance from during the mission...for a big fat fee! I honestly mistrusted the guy and of course Thorpe had stepped in to smooth things over...the sneaky bastard! Minsky must have been on the take just like Egon had been. I drew a hand over my face just remembering the details.

"Well, Minsky's boys weren't giving up so easily and gave chase. Rhet spotted a hummer and we went for it. He managed to get the door open and I sidled in next to him. We found ourselves on the slippery road and still those damn idiots were still tailing us!

We went through a tunnel but it turned out to be a dead-end! We were sure as toast if Rhet didn't bargain with them. Only he paid them all the money we had won in the game and they went off to one side in order to count it. But what I didn't realize was that Rhet had made a deal that I didn't know about that involved me..." He broke off, getting pale in the face.

"What was it Bry?" I hated to think what the answer would be. I already had an inkling that this was clearly no good at all.

"He made a deal with them that I would suck them off if they left us alone..." He gulped.

"WHAT???!!! THAT SON-OF-A-BITCH! I'LL KILL HIM!" I yelled out loud.

"Steady D, what's done is done...I agreed to it. Those bastards were mean bitches and I didn't want any trouble...They liked us blondies a lot so they wanted to use me like a girl. So, while they were all caught up and distracted, Rhet popped them off one by one, plastering their blood on the fresh winter snow with his silencer. He then backed up the hummer, and we both just drove off...leaving them dead, face down in the snow. He technically saved my ass back there..." Bry shuddered from the memory.

"Yes, but that still doesn't make him a saint just for saving your ass, Bry. He used you as a pawn to get back at them and take the money back. Did he give you back your winnings?" I countered.

"Nope. He said that I owed him every single dollar as payment for getting us out of a bind. I was furious at first but I was just a kid then and I couldn't have cared less..." He sighed heavily.

"So, what now? He's blackmailing you, isn't he?" I cocked an eyebrow at him. "DAMMIT, Bry! That was years ago and he's still holding you to it? Why, oh why in God's name didn't you come to me sooner?" I shook my head, disgusted at the news.

"You were already in a whole lot of hell yourself so I couldn't lay this on you..." He nodded, placing his hand on my shoulder before turning away.

"Where the hell do you think you're going at this hour?" I queried, drawing him back towards me.

"I thought that...well since I fucked up really bad that you'd...that you wouldn't love me anymore...so..." He shrugged, but that was enough for me to pull him into my embrace and kiss the living daylights out of him.

"You are going nowhere, mister...and Rhet has a lot to answer for from the likes of me!" I held Bry as he shivered in my arms. I gently smothered him with little kisses until I feel him relax underneath me.

"I thought you'd never speak to me after that..." He nodded nervously.

"Oh? And how so? It doesn't change the way I feel about you but it certainly changes the way I feel about him, that idiot!" I loosened my hold on Bry and balled up my fists angrily.

"Calm down...Calm down, D...please..." Bry was gently stroking my arms as he had felt my biceps tighten from the sudden stress that threatened to push me over the edge to go and grab Rhet and beat the shit out of him.

Bry then turned me around and bruised my lips with his, pulling me back towards the bed. I was just in my sweatpants, having discussed some issues with Marcus in my office earlier which Damien had overheard and interrupted.

But now, with Bry assaulting my lips, I could feel the heat gathering between my thighs, overwhelming me as I found myself getting hard and oh so wanting to jump Bry's bones. I shoved him down on the bed, perusing those beautiful crystal blue eyes that seemed to go on forever and ever.

"Who'd have thought that I'd end up falling for my best bud..." I murmured as I placed kisses strategically under his stubbly chin, the tender drop of his collarbone, the center of his hard, sexy pecs...while caressing...even squeezing those pebbled nipples of his before sucking each one of them slowly...

Bry's eyelids fluttered as his chest rose and fell with each of my kisses while I slowly stroked his arms the entire length down. His boxers betrayed him, revealing an equally aroused self to me as I pressed against him, letting him sense my own arousal...as we continued to rub against one another in a heated frottage...

Those plump lips parted in a soft whimper that became a moan...a deep guttural moan that sent shivers up my spine as I carefully released him from his boxers...He raised his hips towards me as I slipped them off his hot, well-rounded, nicely-shaped butt...a butt that I had already robbed some pleasure from once at the hospital...and once more earlier tonight...and I intended to do it over and over again...

That beautiful beast that lay throbbing between his legs stood at a salute towards me, begging me to steal a taste of that savory saltiness that leaked from its' tip. I could no longer resist the temptation that lay before me and availed myself of that dollop of cream that glistened...

Bry emitted another moan, sensing my presence as my tongue glided over his rigid length, lapping up his very essence as he quivered underneath, his breath hitching slightly with every single stroke of my tongue...

I found myself aching even more to be closer...so much closer...as I quickly slipped off my sweatpants freeing my own aching cock from its' confines before continuing to settle myself between his muscular thighs as my tongue danced around his dripping shaft...

Bry squirmed as I teased...and edged him to the point of no return...taking him deeper and deeper until he begged for his release which I finally allowed as I took every last drop of his essence between my lips...

It was a mind-blowing orgasm that sent Bry to new heights as I milked my lover dry...